The Archaeology of Ancient Indian Cities

The Archaeology of Ancient Indian Cities
Author :
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 354
Release :
ISBN-10 : IND:30000045686684
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 ( Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Archaeology of Ancient Indian Cities by : Dilip K. Chakrabarti

Download or read book The Archaeology of Ancient Indian Cities written by Dilip K. Chakrabarti and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a definitive archaeological perspective on the history of early urban growth in India. It does this by looking at both the protohistoric and the early historic periods, coming down to about AD 300 and later. Geographically, it covers all the major areas of the subcontinent. The existing archaeological data have been synthesized to yield a comprehensive picture of the morphology of ancient sites and their place within what is currently known of their settlement perspectives. This book addresses itself to some of the cardinal issues of South Asian archaeology - the origin and decline of the Indus civilization; the issue of its merger in the main flow of India's later cultural development; the archaeological basis of its long chronology; aspects of Indus urbanism; the reasons for the growth of neolithic-chalcolithic inner India; and the patterns and problems of urban growth in the early historic period on the subcontinental scale. In each case the author's concern is with understanding the situation at the grassroots level within an essentially South Asian framework. The hypotheses offered in this book should lead to some major rethinking about the story of archaeological development in the subcontinent.


The Archaeology of Ancient Indian Cities Related Books

The Archaeology of Ancient Indian Cities
Language: en
Pages: 354
Authors: Dilip K. Chakrabarti
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book offers a definitive archaeological perspective on the history of early urban growth in India. It does this by looking at both the protohistoric and th
The Archaeology of Early Historic South Asia
Language: en
Pages: 400
Authors: Frank Raymond Allchin
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-09-07 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A study of the cities and states of South Asia between c.800BC and AD 250.
Studying Early India
Language: en
Pages: 296
Authors: Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya
Categories: India
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Orient Blackswan

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book comprises a set of interrelated essays on some of the key issues which continue to excite historians and scholars of early India. It shows the profoun
Fortified Cities of Ancient India
Language: en
Pages: 113
Authors: Dieter Schlingloff
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-12-01 - Publisher: Anthem Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Authored by one of the leading scholars of German Indology, “Fortified Cities in Ancient India” offers a comparative exploration of the development of towns
City in Early Historical India
Language: en
Pages:
Authors:
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK